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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies are both operators and investors.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. Let’s examine two cases, one a former colleague and the other a close friend.

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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. The Commission also preliminarily found Google to have abused its dominant position with both its Android mobile operating system and with AdSense. ” To target U.S.

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